A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
On the surface it has not been the greatest third season in Reading for Jesse Biddle, his 4.60 ERA is ugly and he is posting his lowest strikeout numbers of his career. However, that doesn’t tell the entire story here. Fangraphs has Biddle at a 2.77 FIP thanks to his zero home runs on the … Read more
Well, this was a pretty exciting trip to Coca-Cola Park for me tonight. First off, it was my first time using our new seats. We’ve been partial season ticket holders for three seasons now and this year we moved closer to home plate in Section 115. Something always seems to come up which keeps me … Read more
On the year catcher and 2013 second round pick, Andrew Knapp is hitting .292/.339/.396. On the bad news, is that the line comes with 30 strikeouts in 106 ABs (26.1% K%) and a .403 BABIP that doesn’t look sustainable. Last year in Lakewood it was a similar story with Knapp hitting .290/.354/.438 with a 22.6% … Read more
It was a rocky start for Shane Watson from the moment he was drafted in the supplemental first round of the 2012 draft. The big righty was diagnosed with diabetes soon after being drafted which limited his time in the GCL as he lost a lot of weight and strength. He bounced back in Instructs … Read more
My son and I made the one hour trek out to Baseballtown for our first Reading Fightins game of the season. We’ve both been looking forward to this since the season started. For my purposes, this roster is loaded with a variety of young talent at all levels of development. For my son (who is … Read more
Best Matchup: Saturday – Reading – Zach Eflin vs Joe Ross A matchup of former Padres first rounders traded this offseason (Ross in 2011, Eflin in 2012), Ross went to the Nationals in the deal that sent Wil Myers to San Diego and Steven Souza to Tampa Bay. Eflin so far has taken better to the … Read more
It is hard to make any sweeping judgements on early season stats, so the best question is often “What is this player doing new?”. In the case of shortstop Malquin Canelo he is showing power that he has never shown up this point. Canelo up to this point has been a bit of an after … Read more
Per Jim Peyton of Phuture Phillies, the Clearwater Threshers have activated RHP Victor Arano off of the disabled list (RHP Yacksel Rios was put on the DL). Arano had been dealing with shoulder tightness in camp, but was 93-94 over 4 innings in an Extended Spring Training game in his last outing. If Arano is … Read more
Jim Peyton has posted up the first Extended Spring Training roster for the Phillies. Before getting into the specific players, it looks like the Phillies have brought over a lot of latin players (16 Dominican Republic, 22 Venezuela, 2 Panamá, 2 Columbia, 1 Mexico). The number of players from Venezuela is bit surprising and I … Read more
This winter Ricardo Pinto turned a few heads with some high rankings on Phillies top prospect lists. He had just made his stateside debut in Williamsport on a team that does not get a ton of eyes. On first glance Pinto is not physically what you would expect from a good starting pitcher prospect … Read more